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Artificial Intelligence vs Human Intelligence: 7 differences

Artificial Intelligence vs Human Intelligence: 7 differences

March 24, 2024

It may seem complicated to most of us to understand the operation of the machines. However, next to our brain a artificial intelligence system It looks like a six piece puzzle. Perhaps that is why we believe that to understand our way of thinking, perceiving and feeling it is useful to create an analogy between our nervous system and an intelligent machine: perhaps, we think, this second could be used as a simplified model of what happens in our heads. We believe, even, that with the sophistication of new technologies we will be able to create forms of artificial intelligence that work in a similar way to us, simply by improving quantitatively the capacity of our computer systems.


Artificial intelligence vs. human intelligence: why is not our brain a computer?

That day it seems that it is not yet close . There are many differences that separate us from electronic brains, and it is not superficial questions, but structure. This is a list of the main differences between the artificial intelligence systems own of computers and the functioning of our brain.

1. Its architecture is different

A machine equipped with artificial intelligence has a series of data entry and exit ports that we can easily identify. This does not occur in our brain: each substructure of its globality can be at the same time receiver of data and transmitter of information . Nor does it know in what direction the information travels, since the endless ramifications and loops are a constant in the world of neurons.


2. Its operation is different

In any structure of artificial intelligence you can differentiate the channel through which the data travels (hardware) and the information itself. In a brain, on the other hand, the distinction between information and the material medium through which it travels does not exist. The data that are transmitted are in themselves material changes that determine the force of attraction that exists between the neurons. If the neuron A is more connected to the neuron B than to the C, the information is one, while if A becomes more connected to C, the information is different.

3. The data the brain works with can not be stored

One consequence of not distinguishing between channel and information is that there are no large data repositories in our head . That's why we never remember something in the same way, there are always small variations. In fact, it has been proven that even in people with a highly developed autobiographical memory they may have false memories.


4. The importance of context

Our organic brains adapt like a glove to every situation , despite the fact that each of the situations we live in are unique. It is more: before unpredictable contexts, different people are able to react in the same way. This is something that we do not find in artificial intelligence systems, in which different stimuli lead to the same result only if those stimuli are previously determined: if A, then C; if B, then C. Human beings, with all our faults, are made to live in a chaotic context. Our brain is able to interpret all the stimuli, even if they appear unexpectedly and are totally new.

5. Artificial Intelligence needs regularity

Artificial intelligence systems need to be mounted in a very specific way to execute orders and make the information pass from one place to another in the right way. Brains, on the other hand, are unique in each one of us. Next to the network of approximately 100,000,000,000 neurons that support our thinking, the fingerprints that serve to identify us in some contexts seem to be all the same. In addition, our brain is constantly changing, even while we sleep. The great virtue of our brain is that it can work well at all times despite being subject to constant unpredictable alterations: hence it has been defined as the most complex system that exists.

6. Its origin is different

Any artificial intelligence system has been built by one or more intentional agents : scientists, programmers, etc. Our brains, however, have been carved by evolution. That means that, while artificial intelligence stands on certain ways to encode information following some patterns and logical operations, our brain has to make do with a set of nerve cells that do things of nerve cells (forgive the redundancy) . If a machine works from instructions, the functioning of our brain is based on the game of interactions that occur between neurons.

7. We are more emotional than rational beings

This may be a hasty statement (in the end, how do you measure the rational and the irrational?) But, nevertheless, yes you can say that logical and systematic thinking is reduced only to certain situations and moments of our day to day . While machines equipped with artificial intelligence can only work from arguments and premises, in our case the normal thing is to skip this step.

Realize, for example, of everything you are doing now. Does the posture in which you have sat on rational criteria respond, such as the need to keep your back in a position that does not harm you? Or have you at some point decided that, above your health, what is most important is to avoid the effort of keeping your back straight? What's more: have you ever considered this topic? The truth is that, although rational thought and logic have recently appeared in our evolutionary history, our brain has remained more or less the same for 200,000 years.


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